There I am complaining in several posts that puppy doesn't have a big repository or a "propper" package manager- and then I learn that the 3.xx series can have slapt-get and even gslapt all along.
I'm thinking a lot lately about changing my base to fat_free 3.01. Since slapt-get schould work better with the 3.xx series than the 4.xx series- is this an issue or can I run slapt-get on puppy 4.12 without much issue.
Are there any restrictions in using slapt in puppy?
Is the update of puppy system files possible via slapt?
Is the whole slackware 12 repository available?

Sounds all too good to be true- a full blown OS with puppies weight...

Thank you very much in advance for your insights.

Christian

For puppy 3 series we used Gslapt, that worked very well
it also worked on 4 series but had some issues, like if you installed glibc from it or solibs etc that would cripple puppy 4.0.
But on series 3 you could install k3b, now thats a task and a have done with a few clicks. Most of my Fire Hydrant series is based on 3 series and comes with gslapt already installed, I also had a retro lite version that you can find on this forum.
You can find gslapt pet located
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=196585

OK, so I remastered my first alpha. On the Laptop it was developed all went well, but when I throw it in another PC it loads the initial ramdisk just fine, then searches for the pup_412.sfs and says It couldn't find it. I renamed my pupsfs to something like pup_412pulp.sfs.

After rerenaming it to pulp_412.sfs and building another iso with the following command

Rox is not removed, but somewhat hidden. For the users who are used to puppy this is probably the biggest change from stock puppy. For your usual file juggling you can use emelfm. This file manager is magnitudes faster than rox, so it's worth giving it a try if you have a slow machine. I didn't remove rox completely because I didn't know if this would probably break something else.

One of the best finds was gtkedit. Extra tiny, extra fast. Apart from printing, it has the same functionality as leafpad. Leafpad starts on my machine in about 5 seconds, gtkedit is up and running in about one second- whohooo.
If you really want to print out a textfile- use leafpad- it is still there. The binary of gtkedit was taken from the sourceforge site. The proggie is GPL and the source code is there, nothing was changed.

The fastest picture viewer (with slideshow etc.) I could find was xnview. Unfortunately its not FLOSS, but free for non- commercial use. I'm looking desperately for a free alternative. Suggestions are very welcome.

Second best find was firepup (thanks again tuuxxxx). Firefox 1.5 with security updates up to 3.something. I have no real numbers, but it feels a tad quicker than stock firefox 3.xx.

If you are RAM or CPU challenged, use dillo or elinks for web browsing.
Elinks is text based, but surprisingly easy to use, even for a cli- noob like me. Just click on the links with your mouse as usual.

My old Laptop uses APM, so I used rxvt -e cat /proc/apm to give me an idea how much juice is left in my battery. Just click on the yellow battery symbol in the tray.

Sound volume is adjusted with alsamixer- just click on the speaker in the tray.

"Bugs":
After messing with the jwm- config The nice graphical configurator for jwm was broken. To change the themes you have to use the config files now.
Themes are in the /root/.jwm/themes folder.
copy those to /root/.jwm/jwmrc-theme
Background is set with JWM- config file (.jwmrc)
No desktop Icons since rox isn't running.
All these most likely won't get fixed, because they are somewhat responsible for a lot of ram and cpu cycle savings.

If you find bugs, let me know, but I won't guarantee it will be fixed...

Known bugs so far:
-somehow the JWM config file got messed up and the settings don't seem to stick the current workaround is to set the background through xsetroot in the .xinit
-hv3 doesn't work properly and gives funny error messages. Start up time is long anyways. I'll throw it out in the next version.

File manager:
Rox is not removed, but somewhat hidden. For the users who are used to puppy this is probably the biggest change from stock puppy. For your usual file juggling you can use emelfm. This file manager is magnitudes faster than rox, so it's worth giving it a try if you have a slow machine. I didn't remove rox completely because I didn't know if this would probably break something else.

Texteditor:
One of the best finds was gtkedit. Extra tiny, extra fast. Apart from printing, it has the same functionality as leafpad. Leafpad starts on my machine in about 5 seconds, gtkedit is up and running in about one second- whohooo.
If you really want to print out a textfile- use leafpad- it is still there. The binary of gtkedit was taken from the sourceforge site. The proggie is GPL and the source code is there, nothing was changed.

Image viewer:
The fastest picture viewer (with slideshow etc.) I could find was xnview. Unfortunately its not FLOSS, but free for non- commercial use. I'm looking desperately for a free alternative. Suggestions are very welcome.

Browser:
Second best find was firepup (thanks again tuuxxxx). Firefox 1.5 with security updates up to 3.something. I have no real numbers, but it feels a tad quicker than stock firefox 3.xx.
If you are RAM or CPU challenged, use dillo or elinks for web browsing.
Elinks is text based, but surprisingly easy to use, even for a cli- noob like me. Just click on the links with your mouse as usual.

The usual system tray applications (aka: battery status indicator, sound mixer)
My old Laptop uses APM, so I used rxvt -e cat /proc/apm to give an idea how much juice is left in my battery. Just click on the yellow battery symbol in the tray.

Sound volume is adjusted with alsamixer- just click on the speaker in the tray.Last edited by zenfunk on Mon 04 May 2009, 19:03; edited 1 time in total

Why don't all of us combine good qualities from ChoicePup, TurboPup and PULP?

But PULP itself is great. So light and swift. Very impressed. I don't know why you kept this in the closet so long.

Thank you very much for the kind words. I'll be improving PULP constantly. Comparing PULP 0.03 with the 0.02 version shows how much improvement was achieved. Isosize from about 120 MB to 90 MB, better choice of programms, etc. I'm allmost ashamed now of having released 0.02. It looks really clunky now. Probably that's why I kept it for so long to myself.

After using PULP for a while now I'm still impressed about the speed, but after testing you will find many rough edges which have to be taken care for in the next version. .doc-file handling comes to my mind. Apart from something like antiword, the next less lightweight option seems to be abiword- which is way too heavy in my book.
xls- format works at least partly in siag- office, so this is somewhat taken care of.

If anyone knows about a lightweight alternative to antiword please come forward.

Somebody pinched one of our community centre CDs today (Puppy vanilla 4.12), so I popped this one in the CD drive instead and it works even better than the standard 4.12 does, on an old machine with 128 MB of RAM.

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